Welcome to the Department of Engineering Management and Systems

Our master’s degree programs will help you learn skills that can accelerate your professional career by providing you with the enduring and rigorous educational basis upon which most successful strategies for system optimization and product process improvement are built.

The Master of Science program in Engineering Management (ENM) offers practicing engineers the analytical tools and management skills needed to plan, design, optimize and direct complex programs, processes and systems and to lead the teams that make them work. The Master of Science program in Management Science (MSC) teaches technical professionals how to apply the quantitative techniques and tools of operations research to solve problems in business, industry and government. Graduates of both programs are able to quantify, model, analyze and simulate any situation to make the tough decisions required by leaders of complex programs, processes and systems.

Plus, our faculty bring the classroom to you through our innovative Distance Learning environment. While all of our courses are offered in a time-honored classroom setting, most of those live classes are also simultaneously broadcast over the Internet via web conferencing. This simulcast environment enables students who might be unable to attend classes on campus to nonetheless participate in real time via audio, video and chat. To accommodate working professionals, courses are offered during the fall, spring and summer semesters, either over the lunch hour or in the late afternoon or evening. And all simulcast courses are also recorded, enabling both on-campus and Internet-based students the ability to playback classroom sessions at their convenience.

Our Internet-based programs were among the first to be accredited at the University of Dayton as distance learning programs by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association, which cited them for their “robust information technology” and “careful attention to students.”

Student and employer benefit from curricula tailored to individual and organizational needs. In addition to the technological advances achieved by highly skilled engineers, employers reap an immediate return on their investment in employee education by students in company-focused courses and “capstone” projects. Indeed, one Dayton-area employer documented over $100,000,000 in bottom-line, account-verified cost savings that accrued from projects completed by approximately 50 graduates — over an 80-to-1 return on their educational investment!

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Graduate students

Toward the end of your engineering management or management science master's program of study, you'll have the ability to complete a capstone project that will enable you to demonstrate your ability to translate coursework into real-world application. Alternately, if you aspire toward an eventual doctorate degree, you will be encouraged to work with our faculty on a research project that will culminate in a master’s thesis.

Some topics studied by our recent graduates:

Optimizing manufacturing, assembly and sequencing operations for a new facility